Beyond roaming: how Japanese operators can win the inbound traveller
Most people visiting Japan are paying more for a worse mobile experience — and don't know it. Travellers' choice of staying on a home network's roaming service might be convenient but could come at a cost — not just in bill terms, but in experience terms.
Canada, June 2026, Fixed Broadband Experience
Looking at fixed broadband experience in Canada, Bell takes the awards for Reliability, Consistent Quality, and Upload Speed. Meanwhile, Rogers leads for Download Speed and Video.
South Africa’s 5G challenge is spectrum usage, not performance
South Africa was an early African 5G mover, with launches in 2019 and 2020. Yet in Q1 2026, users spent just 3.7% of their connected time on 5G. Even among South Africans equipped with 5G-capable devices, time spent on 5G was limited to only 11.1% of their connectivity — 4G still anchors the daily mobile experience.
5G Standalone in Europe: Where deployment stands and what it means for consumers – June 2026
In this report we assess the scale of 5G Standalone deployment across 29 European markets in Q1 2026, revealing wide disparity between operators' progress and how their strategies translate into real user experience.
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Benchmarking the Global 5G Experience — September 2021
With the autumn smartphone upgrade cycle about to start, with the recent launch of new Samsung foldable models and the new iPhone, many mobile users will be considering purchasing their first 5G phone. Opensignal has again looked at the 5G experience to see how it compares globally
Egypt, September 2021, Mobile Network Experience
Our latest look at the Egyptian mobile networks experience shows something of a two-horse race starting to develop in the market.
How the 5G experience compares across 50 states and 250 US cities
Opensignal has analyzed smartphone users’ 5G mobile experience across all 50 U.S. states and as many as 250 cities. We found that 5G varied significantly across U.S. geographies, with our 5G users on the East Coast generally having a better 5G experience, followed by users on the West Coast and in the Great Lakes region.
Switzerland, September 2021, 5G Experience
In Opensignal's first 5G Experience Report on Switzerland, Sunrise dominates the awards table. The operator wins both 5G speeds awards outright and shares the victory with Salt for the three experiential awards. However, Swisscom wins the two measures of the extent of 5G, which means our Swisscom users were able to connect to 5G more frequently and in more places than those on its competitors’ networks.
Netherlands, September 2021, 5G Experience
KPN wins 5G Download Speed for the second time, and shares the 5G Upload Speed award with T-Mobile.
Netherlands, September 2021, Mobile Network Experience
KPN and T-Mobile jointly win the Download Speed Experience award, but our KPN users saw the fastest average upload speeds.
A great 5G experience benefits from a strong 4G foundation in Germany, Italy & the UK
Opensignal analyzed the impact of different amounts of 5G and 4G spectrum on the overall 5G mobile experience of our users. Our research shows that users in Germany, Italy and the UK saw significantly faster 5G average download speeds when they were also connected to additional amounts of 4G spectrum, through older 4G technology.
